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English industrialist stole iron technique from Black metallurgists

A process for converting scrap metal into high-quality iron, which was crucial to the Industrial Revolution, was devised by Black metallurgists who were enslaved and transported to Jamaica by the British

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Greg Rouse, Scripps Oceanography The Osedax body is visible inside the root of the tooth on the left and the piece emerging from the lower left is the gelatinous tube of the Osedax worm. The worm can retract inside when disturbed so we can see it properly in the picture.

Life

Zombie worms devour shark teeth that fall to the ocean floor

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Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

Life

Why have orcas been damaging and sinking so many boats?

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How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

Life

How a radical redefinition of life could help us find aliens

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Environment

UK and Ireland suffer one of the most severe marine heatwaves on Earth

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Humans could bring microbes into space

Space

Space germs: How can we avoid contaminating other worlds?

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Life

1.6-billion-year-old steroids may be traces of earliest complex life

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The Allen Telescope Array

Space

Fake alien message sent to Earth to prepare us for first contact

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Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial

Space

Why sending messages to extraterrestrials is controversial

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Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Physics

Can recreating black holes in the lab solve the puzzles of space-time?

Researchers are building models of everything from black holes to the big bang in tanks of liquid. Now some claim these surprisingly simple models are showing us where our theories of space-time are wrong

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Life

The hunt for the South Island kōkako, New Zealand’s long-lost bird

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Life

Why the origins of life remain a mystery – and how we will crack it

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Life

Was DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin really a victim of scientific theft?

Analysis

Life

Surprising culprit found that killed 95% of a sea urchin population

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